Annete Sagal
A multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist, certified art therapist, and art curator, she is best known for her work with collage. Born in Kyiv, she combined her education in International Relations and Cultural Diplomacy (Kraków, 2018) with a passion for visual art and therapy. Sagal has started the collage culture movement in Ukraine by founding Kyiv Collage Collective (2021), co-founding and curating the CUTOUT COLLAGE Art Project (2021), as well as starting the creative educational platform Kyiv Collage School (2023). She organized 50+ international collage art exhibitions in Ukraine and Europe. Sagal is also a member of the Ukrainian Art Therapy Association and uses art as a universal therapeutic tool.
She has completed several creative courses at MoMa, University of Florida, Institute of the Higher Psychology and Body Therapy, The University of Adelaide, Kyiv Art College. In 2025, Sagal completed a grant opportunity by creating a series of free online collage workshops, becoming a House of Europe alumni.
Collaborated with CAC M17, Art Therapy Lab, SVA NYC, National museum of the Holodomor Genocide, CAC White World, Museum of the History of Kyiv, "Kyiv National Art Gallery museum", RA Gallery, Wix Ltd., TVORCHI, SIL', Sasquatch agency, Goethe-Institut, Glove UA, TET TV etc.
COLLAGE
ARTIST STATEMENT
Як мисткиня та особистість, я прагну до рівності, стабільності та сталого життя.
Переживаючи виклики життя у часи війни, я відчуваю потребу захистити та показати себе як мисткиню і робити те саме для української культури та митців як кураторка. Я вважаю себе посолкою української культури, зокрема колажного мистецтва. Творити мистецтво – це, по-перше, розмова з самою собою. Я слухаю, вчуся, домовляюся зі своєю внутрішньою дитиною, і разом ми співпрацюємо, щоб створити твір мистецтва у формі колажу, фотографії, віршу або навіть чуттєвого змішання двох треків.
Я працюю з проблематикою чутливості, прав людини, несправедливості, фемінізму, а також доброї та прекрасної сторони життя. Ми живемо в невизначений час, і я вірю, що Мистецтво – це заняття, яке врятує молоде покоління.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Zaporizhzhia Contemporary Art Center, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2025
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Kyiv National Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Between Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant Gallery, Paris, France.
- “For the Sake of a Letter,” Annex Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan. An art activism project aimed at supporting prisoners.
- “For the Sake of a Letter,” Berlin Story Bunker, Berlin, Germany.
- “For the Sake of a Letter,” Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.
-"For the Sake of the Letter", Antropia, Culture and Conference Centre, Driebergen, Netherlands.
- "Fragments", Eye Sea Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2024
- “More Than Houses”, collage exhibition about preserving Kyiv's architecture, art space of NGO Spadschyna, CUTOUT residents, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- “For the Sake of the Letter”, an exhibition dedicated to the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war, organized by the community My Ministry of Culture under the patronage of CUTOUT, Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant gallery, Paris, France.
- “Looking into Ourselves”, a collective exhibition of CUTOUT residents as part of the KAOS collage festival, Kranj, Slovenia.
- "Looking into Ourselves", a collective exhibition of CUTOUT residents, CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- " Facets ", group exhibition of Ukrainian collage in collaboration with G.ART Gallery, Freiluft Kunst Klub Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- "Facets", group exhibition of Ukrainian collage in collaboration with G.ART Gallery, Cafe Kyiv, Berlin, Germany.
2023
- «FREEDOM» – CUTOUT COLLAGE FESTIVAL KYIV-PARIS 2023, CAC M17, Kyiv, Ukraine and gallery Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant, Paris, France.
- «Children of Dr. Frankenstein 2» – Collective collage exhibition, CAC White World, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «THE MOMENT» – personal collage exhibition, CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Genesis of Being» – Collective collage exhibition by CUTOUT, Gunpowder Tower, Lviv, Ukraine.
- «Beauty Will Save the World» – Group photography exhibition raising awareness about Kinburn Peninsula, Ukraine that is being occupied and destroyed by ruzzia, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum, Frederikshavn, Denmark.
- «Me and War» – Collective collage exhibition dedicated to the reflections of 2022 ru-Ukrainian war, Museum of Kyiv History, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 2022 – «PARALLELS» – an exhibition of collages dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, TUFA, Trier, Germany.
- «Planet Love 3.0» – Ukrainian collage, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, IMAGURU CLUB, Madrid, Spain.
2022
- «Zallery» – a virtual exhibition of zine artwork, Art Therapy Lab.
- «Planet Love» – Ukrainian collage, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, art studio El Sitio S, Madrid, Spain.
- «PARALLELS» – an exhibition of collages dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, Ukrainian Culture Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- «PARALLELS» – an exhibition of collages dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, National Museum of the Holodomor-genocide, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «OTOÑO EN MADRID» – group collage exhibition, IMAGURU Culture Space, Madrid, Spain.
- «CUTOUT AGAIN!» – an exhibition of collages from the CUTOUT collection, Knyzhkovy Lev bookstore, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Connected Art» – group art exhibition, Zannart.Holysart gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
- «Genesis of Being» – charity poster exhibition of CUTOUT, Beyond Limits gallery, Berlin, Germany.
- «At skabe virkelighed | Creating Reality», Ukrainian animation, Læsø Kunsthal, Læsø, Denmark (Curator and participant).
- «KAOS» IV International Collage Festival, Mergentaler Street Gallery, Kranj, Slovenia
- «Supernova. Art of Ukraine», collective project «Mur inamovible», Basel Art Center, Curators: Anna Lugovska, Anna Avetova, Basel, Switzerland.
- «POST-IT!», collective exhibition of small collages, Coupee Collage Collective, Bibliotheek de Krook, Ghent, Belgium.
- FIRST PAN-EUROPEAN DIGITAL ART FAIR, online group exhibition.
- «ALC Collage Festival», group exhibition, Alicante, Spain.
- «Segments of life», collective collage exhibition, CUTOUT LOVERS, Art gallery «Mytets», Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Planet Love», group collage exhibition of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO residents, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Group exhibition «Ukrainian Collage», Khmelnytsky Regional Art Museum, curator Oleg Vasylenko, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine.
2021
- «Orange», collective collage exhibition, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Third collective collage exhibition, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Second collective exhibition of collage, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «KYIV-BASED voseny» - autumn showcase of the Kyiv's independent cultural community, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Festival of New Ukrainian Culture «SPALAKH», Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Opening of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, residents collective exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- The first contemporary collage festival in Ukraine «CUTOUT FESTIVAL», RA Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Ukrainian Collage», Mystetskyi Arsenal (International Festival «X Book Arsenal»), Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Earth Patterns», international online group photography exhibition presented at ARTSTEPS
- «The Colors of Parajanov», group collage exhibition, Ivan Kavaleridze Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019
- «Vyrobnyky Mriy at Plastikwood», art festival, Plastikwood, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013
- «Photosushka», House of the Artist, Kyiv, Ukraine.